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Books about Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Books by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Books about Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

• The Drama of Language: Essays on Goethe and Kleist (originally published 1970; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Sigurd Burckhardt, ed. by Bernhard Blume and Roy Harvey Pearce, trans. by Lillian Reed Atkins (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Göthe und Seine Werke (second edition, in German; Kaliningrad: Bornträger, 1856), by Karl Rosenkranz
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mape: The World of Illusion (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1926), by André Maurois, trans. by Eric Sutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conversations with Eckermann: Being Appreciations and Criticisms on Many Subjects (Washington and London: M. Walter Dunne, c1901), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Peter Eckermann, trans. by John Oxenford, contrib. by Wallace Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Die Goethezeit in Silhouetten: 74 Silhouetten in Ganzer Figur Vornehmlich aus Weimar und Umgebung (text in German; Weimar: G. Kiepenheuer, 1911), ed. by Hans Timotheus Kroeber
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• Immanuel Kant: A Study and Comparison With Goethe, Leonardo da Vinci, Bruno, Plato and Descartes (in English and German), by Houston Stewart Chamberlain, trans. by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Immanuel Kant: A Study and Comparison With Goethe, Leonardo da Vinci, Bruno, Plato and Descartes (2 volumes; London: J. Lane; et al., 1914), by Houston Stewart Chamberlain, trans. by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes; page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Man or Matter: Introduction to a Spiritual Understanding of Nature on the Basis of Goethe's Method of Training Observation and Thought (first edition), by Ernst Lehrs (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Representative Men, by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Gutenberg text)
• Representative Men: Seven Lectures (Philadelphia: H. Altemus, 1894), by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature v1; Cambridge: Harvard University, 1910), by George Santayana (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Denkschrift zum Hundertjährigen Geburtsfeste Goethes: Ueber Ungleiche Befähigung der Verschiedenen Menschheitstämme für Höhere Geistige Entwickelung (in German; Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1849), by Carl Gustav Carus
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Goethe's Correspondence With a Child (3 volumes; London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1839), by Bettina von Arnim, contrib. by Catharina Elisabeth Goethe and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Goethe und Maler Kolbe: Ein Deutsches Künstlerleben (second edition, in German; Leipzig: G. Wigand, 1900), by Karl Theodor Gaedertz, contrib. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Heinrich Kolbe
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Goethes Briefe an Frau von Stein, Nebst dem Tagebuch aus Italien, und Briefen der Frau von Stein (4 volumes in German; Stuttgart and Berlin: J. G. Cotta, ca. 1890), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, contrib. by Charlotte von Stein and Karl Heinemann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Goethes Briefwechsel mit Wilhelm und Alexander v. Humboldt (in German; Berlin: H. Bondy, 1909), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and Alexander von Humboldt, ed. by Ludwig Geiger
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• Mephistopheles: A Profanation (New York: Gilliss Brothers and Turnure, 1889), by John Kendrick Bangs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jahrbuch der Goethe-Gesellschaft (in German) (full serial archives)
• Jahrbuch des Freien Deutschen Hochstifts (in German) (partial serial archives)

• Chinese Sympathies: Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2011), by Daniel L. Purdy (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Poetry and Philosophy of Goethe (Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Co., 1887), ed. by Marion V. Dudley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Poetry and Philosophy of Goethe (Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Co., 1887), ed. by Marion V. Dudley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Charlotte von Stein (fifth edition, in German; Berlin: E. S. Mittler und Sohn, 1920), by Wilhelm Bode (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Novels and Tales by Goethe: Elective Affinities; The Sorrows of Werther; German Emigrants; The Good Women; and a Nouvelette (London: Bell and Daldy, 1868), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. by R. Dillon Boylan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Poems of Goethe, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. by Edgar Alfred Bowring (Gutenberg text)

• Goethes Briefe an Frau von Stein, Nebst dem Tagebuch aus Italien, und Briefen der Frau von Stein (4 volumes in German; Stuttgart and Berlin: J. G. Cotta, ca. 1890), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, contrib. by Charlotte von Stein and Karl Heinemann (page images at HathiTrust)

• Faust und Moses (reprint of three articles published by the Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, in German, 1912), by Konrad Burdach
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  • Part 1 (as published in original journal): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part 2 (as published in original journal): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part 3 (as published in original journal): multiple formats at archive.org
• Mephistopheles: A Profanation (New York: Gilliss Brothers and Turnure, 1889), by John Kendrick Bangs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Wilhelm Meister and His English Kinsmen: Apprentices to Life (New York: Columbia University Press, 1930), by Susanne Howe (page images at HathiTrust)

Books by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832: Annette (newly edited, with additional poems from Goethe's "Leipziger Liederbuch"; in German; Berlin: Pan-Verlag, ca. 1905), ed. by Hans Landsberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832, contrib.: Art, Literature, and the Drama (New York: The Tribune Association, 1869), by Margaret Fuller, ed. by Arthur B. Fuller (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832, contrib.: Art, Literature, and the Drama (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1889), by Margaret Fuller, ed. by Arthur B. Fuller
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832: Conversations of Goethe (includes the third volume with Soret; revised edition, 1906), also by Johann Peter Eckermann, ed. by John Oxenford, contrib. by Frédéric Jacob Soret (HTML at hxa.name)
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832: Conversations of Goethe With Eckermann and Soret (new edition; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1875), also by Johann Peter Eckermann, ed. by John Oxenford, contrib. by Frédéric Jacob Soret (multiple formats at Google)
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832: Conversations with Eckermann: Being Appreciations and Criticisms on Many Subjects (Washington and London: M. Walter Dunne, c1901), also by Johann Peter Eckermann, trans. by John Oxenford, contrib. by Wallace Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832: Egmont, trans. by Anna Swanwick
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832: Elective Affinities: A Novel (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832: Faust (part I), trans. by Anna Swanwick (HTML at Bartleby)
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832: Faust (parts I and II), trans. by A. S. Kline (HTML at poetryintranslation.com)
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832: Faust, trans. by Bayard Taylor, illust. by Harry Clarke (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832: Faust: A Tragedy (authorised edition; London and New York: Ward, Lock, and Co., ca.1889), trans. by Bayard Taylor (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832: Faust: A Tragedy Translated From the German of Goethe, With Notes (7th edition; Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868), ed. by Charles T. Brooks (Gutenberg text)
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832, contrib.: The German Theatre (6 volumes; London: Vernor and Hood, 1801), trans. by Benjamin Thompson, also contrib. by August von Kotzebue, Joseph Marius Babo, August Wilhelm Iffland, Friedrich Schiller, Friedrich Ludwig Schröder, Karl Reitzenstein, and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832, contrib.: Goethe und Maler Kolbe: Ein Deutsches Künstlerleben (second edition, in German; Leipzig: G. Wigand, 1900), by Karl Theodor Gaedertz, also contrib. by Heinrich Kolbe
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832: Goethes Briefe an Frau von Stein, Nebst dem Tagebuch aus Italien, und Briefen der Frau von Stein (4 volumes in German; Stuttgart and Berlin: J. G. Cotta, ca. 1890), contrib. by Charlotte von Stein and Karl Heinemann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832: Goethes Briefwechsel mit Wilhelm und Alexander v. Humboldt (in German; Berlin: H. Bondy, 1909), also by Wilhelm von Humboldt and Alexander von Humboldt, ed. by Ludwig Geiger
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832, contrib.: Goethe's Correspondence With a Child (3 volumes; London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1839), by Bettina von Arnim, also contrib. by Catharina Elisabeth Goethe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832: Goethe's Theory of Colours (based on the 1840 edition), ed. by Charles Lock Eastlake (illustrated HTML with commentary at theoryofcolor.org)
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832: Goethe's Theory of Colours: Translated from the German, With Notes (London: J. Murray, 1840), ed. by Charles Lock Eastlake (multiple formats at Google)
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832: Hermann and Dorothea, trans. by Ellen Frothingham
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832: Iphigenia in Tauris, trans. by Anna Swanwick (Gutenberg text)
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832: Novels and Tales by Goethe: Elective Affinities; The Sorrows of Werther; German Emigrants; The Good Women; and a Nouvelette (London: Bell and Daldy, 1868), trans. by R. Dillon Boylan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832: The Poems of Goethe, trans. by Edgar Alfred Bowring (Gutenberg text)
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832, contrib.: Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books, With Introductions and Notes (Harvard Classics v39; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, c1910), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, also contrib. by William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, John Heminge, Henry Condell, Isaac Newton, John Dryden, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, William Wordsworth, Victor Hugo, Walt Whitman, and Hippolyte Taine
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832: The Sorrows of Werther, trans. by Thomas Carlyle (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832: The Sorrows of Young Werther, ed. by Nathan Haskell Dole, trans. by Thomas Carlyle and R. Dillon Boylan (Gutenberg text)
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832, contrib.: Tales From the German, Comprising Specimens From the Most Celebrated Authors (London: Chapman and Hall, 1844), trans. by John Oxenford and C. A. Feiling, also contrib. by Johann Karl August Musäus, Friedrich Schiller, Wilhelm Hauff, Karl Leberecht Immermann, C. F. van der Velde, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Heinrich von Kleist, Ludwig Tieck, Jean Paul, Adam Oehlenschläger, and Heinrich Zschokke
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832, contrib.: Weird Tales: German (London and Edinburgh: W. Paterson, n.d.), also contrib. by Wilhelm Hauff, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Friedrich Schiller, Walter Scott, and Ludwig Tieck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, trans. by Thomas Carlyle, contrib. by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, J. R. Seeley, and Edward Dowden (searchable HTML at Bartleby)